At the start of 2014, Mayor Bloomberg of New York City left office and was replaced by Mayor DiBlasio. One of the first things that DiBlasio did was to end the "stop and frisk" program of the New York City police department. Under that program, officers would identify people who they had reason to believe might be carrying illegal weapons (among other things) and then stopped and frisked them. The liberals across New York went crazy denouncing the program since they called it racist and fascist and all manner of other things. Pro-active police had to be stopped at all costs according to the liberals. When DiBlasio (an uber liberal) won election, he took immediate action to carry out this part of the liberal agenda. Stop and frisk is a thing of the past.
It is now eight months later. We now have a reasonable period to see the results of the move. According to official New York City statistics, shooting victims in the city have risen from 736 in 2013 to 823 in 2014. The number of shooting incidents has risen from 621 to 702. Those are increases of 12 and 13% respectively. Even more instructive is that during the first three months of the year-- before behavior changed due to the end of stop and frisk--the numbers for 2013 and 2014 were roughly the same. In other words, the increase in 2014 is all in the last four months.
Before you speculate that there has been a general increase in crime in New York, let me tell you that the statistics do not show that. In 2014, the total of serious crimes is down three and a half percent from the 2013 numbers. The only large increase is in gun violence.
So in New York we get a true test of how well liberalism works in dealing with gun violence. The city has stringent gun control laws. It also does not allow the police to "infringe upon" the rights of suspicious individuals or engage in supposed racist behavior by using stop and frisk. As a result, gun violence is soaring.
Maybe it's time to ask the people of New York if they like the end of the stop and frisk program in view of the dire results. If a poll is taken, I suggest that the pollster start with the 823 people who got shot so far this year.
It is now eight months later. We now have a reasonable period to see the results of the move. According to official New York City statistics, shooting victims in the city have risen from 736 in 2013 to 823 in 2014. The number of shooting incidents has risen from 621 to 702. Those are increases of 12 and 13% respectively. Even more instructive is that during the first three months of the year-- before behavior changed due to the end of stop and frisk--the numbers for 2013 and 2014 were roughly the same. In other words, the increase in 2014 is all in the last four months.
Before you speculate that there has been a general increase in crime in New York, let me tell you that the statistics do not show that. In 2014, the total of serious crimes is down three and a half percent from the 2013 numbers. The only large increase is in gun violence.
So in New York we get a true test of how well liberalism works in dealing with gun violence. The city has stringent gun control laws. It also does not allow the police to "infringe upon" the rights of suspicious individuals or engage in supposed racist behavior by using stop and frisk. As a result, gun violence is soaring.
Maybe it's time to ask the people of New York if they like the end of the stop and frisk program in view of the dire results. If a poll is taken, I suggest that the pollster start with the 823 people who got shot so far this year.
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